according to thezreview.com



ETA: ok the last post was on 14th Jan, and that was me!! what gives, isn't anyone OBSESSED ANYMORE? sheeesh.

you can see the Connie & Carla trailer at comingsoon.net

if you can be bothered.

bumped because i hear DD will be on the Ellen show on 7th April.

Plus he's in another bad looking movie which is coming out soon:

Connie and Carla

Toni Collette - why hath thou forsaken me?!??!

hoorah!

You know, I think CONNIE AND CARLA might be a lot of fun - I laughed at the trailer several times. Of course, one of my favorite movies ever is SOME LIKE IT HOT so this little homage to it warms my heart. Plus, I love drag queen bars - yes, it's true - and campy humor so color me there. And I do love me some Toni Collette, ever since she came from a little town in Australia called "Porpoise Spit", actually (MURIEL'S WEDDING)...

ETA: Here's the link to the film's official site - there's some cute stuff there:
http://www.connieandcarla.com/

The movie does sound fun and I love Toni Collette. Why couldn't David end up being her character's romantic interest. That other actress got the chance to make out with John aka Chris "In the Morning" Stevens/Aidan "He did her floors" Shaw Corbett.

Ejluthor - Thanks for the link.

Mmmm Chris-in-the-morning....

See to me this just seems like a rip off of the above, not a tribute. But we will see.

It's like a cross between Some Like It Hot and Victor/Victoria.

Just poking my head in (but I did read back in the thread) to ask if anyone's heard more about this:

I found this which debunks it: Badu baffled...

Here's the text:

Ah well. It was amusing to think about.

I completely forgot about that recent rumor. My friend told me weeks ago that the dj, Wendy Williams had mentioned something about the Badu/Leoni fight.

Damn. That would have been awesome! You know, in that juvenile "fight! fight! fight!" kind of way.

Otherwise, I'm a pacifist.

I know it's probably not true and all, but, in my fantasy, Erykah and DD started a torrid affair and Tea only found out because she found one of Badu's famous headwraps stuffed between the cushions of his trailer couch. She tracked the "Tyrone" singer down and jumped her in the parking lot, threatening to choke her senseless with said headwrap, even snatching her baldheaded if she ever comes near her man again. Badu mouthed off with a "Please! He's my man now!" to which the scrappy Tea finished what she started:

Badu Before:
http://www.papermag.com/paperdaily/cultura...es/ebadu_01.gif

Badu After:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/career/0102...eza/02.badu.jpg

ejluther is not only handsome but he has joined bmills in the genius club.

I'm not sure why I was reminded of this, but a few weeks ago I was watching the Futurama DVDs and one of the commentators was talking about auditioning actors for the part of Bender, the robot.

(paraphrasing)
Commentator (possibly Matt Groening): We thought of several actors who we thought would be good as a robot. (Pause) David Duchovny...

So funny.

you know, even though i abhor all kinds of violence and do not condone violent sport as entertainment, i would pay good money to see a Badu/Leoni fight. there may be a tangible height difference, but apart from that they would be pretty well matched and might end up pretty much slugging it out.

i do think, however, that Leoni would probably just turn around and say "the bastard was unfaithful? have him, i'm done." and then Badu would be all "i was never much into trailer sex anyway, see ya."

ETA: apparently DD will be on Leno on 5th April, and i'm also seeing him listed in cast of Evil Dead 4 (????)

Gillian Anderson is also listed in the cast for Evil Dead 4 or whatever.

Geez, I just caught DD on a rerun of Primetime Glick and man! I'd forgotten exactly how pretty he is. Bowled me over again. I have to admit; he looks really relaxed now and much more easygoing, although I suppose it was filmed not long after X-files wrapped.

Duchovny is also on Ellen on April 7th.

David was very cute on Leno. Did two segments. Spent the first one discussing House of D, and how he's fighting the MPAA for a PG-13 so they've had to tone down some word play things, such as Kochukokov, which NBC actually bleeped the dozen or so times he and Leno said it.

The second segment he discussed the new movie and said it was nice getting back to Vancouver to film it after five years away and he really likes the city and may end up buying land there. He mentioned living there someday but I couldn't tell if that was a riff or not. The property thing seemed genuine.

No mention of the family (and he was not wearing his ring for folks who pay attention to that). He wore blue jeans, a white striped oxford (two buttons undone), and a chocolate brown blazer. Hair was a bit shaggy. He looked good and rested, a little bit fuller-faced, and clean-shaven.

Re: the wedding ring, there's really no rhyme or reason to when and where he decides to wear it, as far as I can tell. There's an audio interview floating around now from last weekend where he talks about Tea and seems to be very enamored with her, it's quite sweet actually. (I remember people saying right after they got married that it would be over within months. Well, it's been seven years, so I'd say they're definitely beating the Hollywood odds!)

Lovely interview on Leno; typical DD humor. He was freakin adorable holding the baby bears. You can tell he's an animal lover.

More good news:

thanks very much for these two reports, NickChick and cmb93. i'm hoping CJ at the gaddarchives will be able to post a video file of Leno and DD's upcoming appearances - she usually does and i'm always grateful. i adore DD in jeans - and when he decides to he can really turn on the charm and can be very appealing.

one question - perhaps obvious coming from a Brit raised by working class, Scotland's-industrial-west-coast protestants - what's a Kochukokov?

edited because i really should be able to spell my own parents' denomination

Thank you, Glasgow, I too was wondering about that.

It's a play on words that twelve year olds (and me) do, with fake book titles that correspond with fake author's names, like Rusty Bedsprings, by I.P. Nightly, etc. DD's was 'Russian something-or-other (help?), by Ivana Kochukokov (or, sounded out, Cut-your-cock-off).

oh. was it funny? it sounds kind of lame.

It sounded lame to me too, but then, this is DD we're talking about - and Leno. 'Nuff said.

Thanks, cmb for the info on this year's Tribeca film festival. I went last year to see the premiere of Ewan McGregor/Renee Zellweger film, Down With Love.

Crap, I wish I'd known he was on! Yay on the bears and the clean-shaven and the outfit. Boo on the seemingly unstemmable tide of ass (or near-ass) jokes.

NickChick, what new movie was he discussing? The Connie and Carla one? I know it wouldn't be a new XF one (I KNOW that -- unless they have a time machine), but I heard "new movie" and "Vancouver" and I accidentally got all excited for a second. Even though I'm sure they wouldn't actually shoot a new XF movie in Vancouver. My brain is just trained to flag all those words still.

Anyway. I've missed that crazy Duchov. It's been a while.

Heh. I just saw the clips on duchovny.net. The guy's just too funny.

I didn't even know he had a movie coming out next week.

AAARGH! Then why did he bitch about it for years and force the entire frigging production company to move to LA, ruining the visual style of the series? AAARGH!

Whoa, people still feel that way? I thought we all pretty much decided back in like, 1998 that these fears were unfounded and the show looked the same. I certainly still feel it looks the same.

As An Amoeba -- yes, the Connie & Carla film -- they shot it in Vancouver last summer. No mention at all of a possible XF sequel, dagnabbit.

As for change in style between Vancouver and LA -- I saw it. The thing that glaringly stood out for me was that the actors always looked shiny/hot, like they were still dressing as they had in Vancouver without taking into account sunshine + temp increase + Kleg lights = sweat.

He mentioned that he'd been sort of blackballed in Vancouver because of his comments to Conan about the rain (but he slid right past the whole moving-the-production thing) and he figured buying property was the only way to make it right...

It may just be sentiment on my part, but I prefer the Vancouver era XF, too. It just "felt" creepier and more befitting what is, in the end, a cult show...

Bitterness has no shelf life.

And yes, the feel of the show changed. Everyplace they went looked like sunny So Cal, and many of us missed the moodiness brought by the Canadian rain, greenery, and forests.

I just love Vancouver and want to see it as much as I possibly can.

So, yes, I noticed a distinct difference after the move too.

I one hundred percent absolutely feel that the show became slicker, shinier, brighter, sunnier, flatter (visually), more antiseptic, more celebrity-laden, a completely different color, and altogether less atmospheric the very instant they moved to L.A. DD did have a point that he'd been promised a move after ONE season and after five he got tired of being put off. So I understand the reasons for it. But I don't have to like it. I always feel sad when I watch the L.A. episodes. I know just about zippo about the nuts and bolts of television production, but it's one of those things where you could tell they had an entirely new crew, even if you weren't exactly sure what those people all did -- you knew they did SOMETHING, and suddenly whatever they were doing, it was being done differently. The Vancouver episodes just have a moodiness and a quietness that the L.A. ones never did, no matter how many rain machines and night shoots they had. Plus, it didn't help that they immediately gave GA a trendoid haircut/makeup and started dressing her all fashionable 'n stuff.

That said, I always thought it was a bit ludicrous that DD, while he did make some legitimately quoted comments about Vancouver and the rain and so forth that maybe weren't politically wise (not that he ever worries about that, which can be both a good and a bad thing) (and GA made some of those "it rains a lot" comments too -- because, Lord, it DOES rain a lot, and they stood in it, a lot), took the most shit for what he said on Conan. Because it was a funny bit. It wasn't a spontaneous complaint. How do I know it was a bit? BECAUSE THERE WERE COSTUMES. AND PROPS. Yeah. He was trying to put a lighthearted spin on it, which I thought was a great way to deal with it, and nobody got it. And let me tell you that it was always a MASSIVE pet peeve of mine when DD would do some asinine interview, people would bitch about it, and the DD-oriented folks would sigh long-sufferingly and say knowingly to each other that those who objected just weren't SMART enough to UNDERSTAND David. A MASSIVE pet peeve. No, MASSIVE. But in this case, I think it's actually accurate. I mean, there was a guy in a bear suit dressed as a friggin' Mountie. Unless I dreamed that part. But there were definitely costumes, and I think a guy pretending to be the mayor of Vancouver or something, scolding DD. That sort of thing.

(And no, I don't think people thought the guy in the bear suit was real. But I do think they thought the setup to the joke was. He was participating in an exaggerated, self-deprecating parody of his previous complaints, not actually complaining.)

So, yeah. I get why they moved, and even though I wish DD hadn't put his foot down, I can understand it, I guess. But it bums me out. Because it may have been better for them in L.A., but it wasn't better for me, man.

Um, sorry to ramble. Lost in the memories. <g>

The difference between the Vanoucver seasons and the LA seasons is pretty obvious: instead of constantly visiting the midwest's mountainous pine forests, M&S constantly visit the midwest's deserts.

After the freak-out about DD's anti-Vancouver comments, DD and GA always seemed to bend over backwards to compliment the city whenever they were interviewed about the move.

Interviewer: So why is the production going to L.A.?
DD/GA: Although Vancouver is a wonderful city, and beautiful, and has perfect weather, and great actors and crew-people, and excellent coffee, and some tasty Thai restaurants, and not too much traffic, and no one spits, and the streets are self-cleaning, and it discovered cold fusion, and God went to college there, and its yellow sun gives us superpowers... well, L.A. is just home to me, you know?

thanks AlejandraDD for mentioning the duchovny.net archive. i'll have to wait til after work to watch the clips, but had a glance at the screen caps. i'm sorry but, i swear, if you start from the basis that the perfect man (or human for that matter) is a contradiction in terms, DD is more or less perfect. at least perfect-looking, is what i mean.

Hee!

What Slip said.

has had me laughing all day.

The whole thing really needs to be part of the Vancouver travel guide, sans that LA part ;).

[OT]What I'd like to know is, where are the Indian food places in Vancouver? When I visited last year, there was one Indian food place in Gastown near the ferry landing that I wanted to eat at, and although the joint was empty, because I was alone, they wouldn't let me sit by a window (they're upstairs overlooking the street), so I left.

I didn't realize they were almost the only Indian food place in the city. I was so happy to find a takeout place a block behind a Safeway in North Vancouver that it had to do.[/OT]

ETA -- I completely spaced Ellen this morning. Anyone catch it?

I taped it and just watched it. I thought it was pretty adorable, I must say. I liked it more than the Leno interview (thanks, AlejandraDD!). He did a funny dance to "Secret Agent Man," told a cute story about his daughter, actually mentioned the possibility of an X-Files movie (!!), did a trick with his dog Blue (whom I was absurdly happy to see), and had his ass commented positively on by Ellen. (And rightly so. Nice jeans. Slobber.)

Then again, there were no bear cubs. But you can't have everything.

I imagine it will be up on duchovny.net soon, if it's not already.

I have to say, the movie doesn't look that exciting. I'm sure I'll see it, eventually, but I'll probably end up skipping it in the theater. Thanks in advance, Netflix. <g>

I'm here to add that it was funny as hell, the dancing was pretty sweet and yes, they made a big deal about showing his ass off - works for me! I was also psyched to see Blue there, I'm such a geek.

He also talked about West and Kidd/Miller (I think we go with Miller but I can' keep up) and how West is such a busy 5 yr old that when David tries to make a date with her for some play time, she'll say something like "I'm so busy - if I have time!" Yeah, I was too busy grinning to remember exactly but the clip'll be good. Then the whole 'Spay and Neuter' as kids names, which I liked.

Oh, and the crouching M/S photo from S2 or 3 and how DD thinks thats a stupid position for FBI agents, until Ellen says they're getting ready to pounce...love. it.

And the Movie!! He said its in the works! (I'll believe it when I'm in the theater dude.)

ETA-there are a lot of Indian restaurants on the west side (like around Kitsilano and 4th Ave.) and also in 'Little India' (duh) which is not very well known as such to visiters. Its in the 40-ish blocks out on Main and they have awesome places, plus great fabric stores. Sorry you missed some of those, but I'm sure North Van was good.

jfdb -- I knew not of a Little India or the places in Kits (which I drove around for a bit, even) -- thanks very much for the heads up. Duly noted.

And thanks to you both for the Ellen recaps -- I missed Blue? Dagnabbit. That's cute about him having to "book" his daughter.

ETA -- Found screencaps of it at duchovny.net (no sound card so I'm going to have to wait for a transcript) -- who was the girl with him and Ellen and Blue?

The girl is a singer named Sarah Hammer, who performed on the show.

Hee, pouncing FBI agents.

Yo. Just wanted to share that I saw Connie & Carla at a screening a few weeks ago and I enjoyed it. I am a big Toni Collette fan, I must admit. There is one rather classic DD scene that I'm now laughing about when I think about it.

I'd say definite rental material for most. For those, however, that love musicals and/or Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Muriel's Wedding, Hedwig, etc. this is the movie for you on the big screen. I don't see how you couldn't be entertained by the scenes at the club (the girls doing their act), of which there are many.

ETA for ejluther: Nobody's perfect. ;)

Dear. Lord. I love those films (especially HEDWIG)! I am SO there!

ETA: Not to mention the obvious SOME LIKE IT HOT parallel - SLIH is one of my favorite films of all time and if you haven't seen it, you should....

Upcoming DD appearance alert:

Thursday, April 15, Late Show with David Letterman

Friday, April 16, Today Show

Friday, April 16, Late Night with Conan O'Brien

This was in the NY Daily News today. No new info, but a nice article.